RE: Show us your roots!
January 24, 2016 at 8:18 am
(This post was last modified: January 24, 2016 at 8:20 am by Alex K.)
As I've mentioned elsewhere, the region in south western Germany where I grew up, between today's France and the Rhine river, was devastated by waves of the plague and the 30 years war, and by the mid 1600s, only few inhabitants remained. It was then that the local nobility advertised moving there to abandoned farms, for example in then famine-struck Switzerland. Many heeded their call, and the region was re-settled by a large Swiss population. Hence my last name, in its original swiss spelling, 'Knuchel'.
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition
